Vehicle Condition Monitoring For the Automated Highway System

As the technology and system concepts evolve for the Automated Highway System, condition monitoring is playing a significant role. The determination of the capability of a vehicle to enter the highway system, of the highway system to accept it, and in the functional condition of various vehicle and roadside subsystems during operation is dependent upon the monitoring effectiveness. A simple steering failure simulation example indicates the impact on the highway design, the level of redundancy that might be necessary in the vehicle controller, and the capability of the driver to be a part of the fault detection and reconfiguration process.